Lava continues to flow out of Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano, one of the most active in the world
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Lava is continuing to ooze out of the Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island a day after it began erupting.
Lava is continuing to ooze out of the Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island a day after it began erupting.
Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory detected a glow around 3:20 p.m. Wednesday at the summit of the volcano's caldera, a cauldron-shaped hollow that forms after a large volume of magma erupts in a short period of time.
By 3:42 p.m., the eruption had sparked within the Halema'uma'u crater, and webcam video of the activity showed fissures at the base of the crater generating rivers of lava, the USGS reported when changing its alert level from "watch" to "warning" Wednesday afternoon.
The lava lake that the new lava is flowing into had been cooling since May, when another series of eruptions had ceased.
